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by ooh 05/21/2005, 8:10am PDT |
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Fussbett foolishly wrote:
Multimedia Designer was what my first business card read in the mid 90’s. I designed multimedia, which is two or more medias put together. Not content to master a single media (psh, the renaissance), us multimedia designers tackled pictures AND sound. At the same time. That may seem impossible, but remember, we had the help of computers.
Designing multimedia, taken literally, would be a fantastic job to have, sitting there all day with a digital protractor and virtual T-square, just dreaming up visuals and sounds. "Yellow Garamond Condensed text… Light ambient techno music in the background!" is what you might hear a designer shout into the air before he collapses in a creative heap. Unfortunately, this is usually the role of the art director. The dirty secret behind being a multimedia designer is that you don’t often design, and instead spend your day implementing. Implementing, troubleshooting, fixing. I'm sorry if I just turned your whole world upside down with that statement. To keep you from going completely crazy, please be assured that the art director is almost always flamingly gay, just as you'd expect.
Exploding all around us in the 90s was the dot com boom, but while Indian in the Cupboard’s Rishi Bhat was developing million dollar privacy software and computer-savvy young people everywhere had their sights set on the bigger picture, I was at a multimedia company, focused on the small picture. Usually the small picture of an envelope with the @ symbol superimposed, an icon that would surely get the client approval once I add the drop shadow. My Ferrari would be earned the hard way.
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The continuing errosion of my industry. by Fussbett 05/03/2005, 3:45am PDT 
erosion NT by Quentin Beck 05/03/2005, 4:04am PDT 
competent NT by Quentin Beck, again 05/03/2005, 6:19am PDT 
hillarious NT by Fussbett 05/03/2005, 2:02pm PDT 
Re: The continuing errosion of my industry. by Fullofkittens <--- spent no effort 05/03/2005, 7:03am PDT 
They just started www.audiooutpost.com too NT by Fussbett. 05/04/2005, 7:00am PDT 
Re: They just started www.audiooutpost.com too by Fullofkittens 05/04/2005, 7:16am PDT 
Design: way too easy! NT by Eyo 05/03/2005, 12:13pm PDT 
Re: The continuing errosion of my industry. by Ice Cream Jonsey 05/03/2005, 1:53pm PDT 
Re: The continuing errosion of my industry (competant). by Fussbett 05/03/2005, 2:35pm PDT 
better writers than I NT by Quentin Beck 05/04/2005, 5:43pm PDT 
Hello. Have we met? NT by Irony 05/04/2005, 5:52pm PDT 
better writers than I [am]. The am is silent. NT by Quentin Beck 05/04/2005, 6:29pm PDT 
You can be the editor of my new imaginary career. NT by Fussbett 05/04/2005, 6:38pm PDT 
Keeps you knee deep in topsoil by Chemdem 05/09/2005, 6:26pm PDT 
I love talking about me. by Fussbett 05/21/2005, 4:46am PDT 
Re: I love talking about me. by ooh 05/21/2005, 8:10am PDT 
Re: I love talking about me. by Mysterio 05/21/2005, 9:05am PDT 
Hmph! NT by Zseni 05/21/2005, 9:11am PDT 
Re: I love talking about me. by Choson 05/21/2005, 10:10am PDT 
Re: I love talking about me. by Bill Dungsroman 05/21/2005, 7:17pm PDT 
Design outpost: still going by FABIO 05/05/2009, 12:58pm PDT 
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